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Irfan Suleman, M.D.

Medical Director, Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program

Dr. Irfan Suleman is an assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include Pediatric Anesthesia and Pediatric Pain Management. He is a nationally and internationally recognized physician in these fields. Dr. Suleman also serves as the Director of Pediatric Regional Anesthesia, the Director of Pediatric Chronic Pain Interventional Management at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the Medical Director of Multidisciplinary Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Suleman completed his anesthesiology residency training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and received an “Excellence in Pediatric Anesthesia 2008” award at his graduation. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH)/UAMS in 2009. He continued to work as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist at ACH, where he developed a Pediatric Regional Anesthesia program and served as its director . He is board certified by the Diplomat of American Board of Anesthesiology (2011) and Pediatric Anesthesiology (2014).

Dr. Suleman’s passion and interest is in pediatric pain. As his interest grew, he decided to expand his skills further to include multidisciplinary chronic pediatric pain management and chronic pediatric interventional pain management. He completed his Pediatric Pain fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard University, this training makes him a unique physician in the country.

Dr. Suleman is working on various projects for pediatric pain and is instrumental in discovering new techniques for postoperative pain control in children.

Dr. Suleman completed a teaching scholar program and is actively involved in teaching residents, fellows, and faculty. He was awarded the “Dean's Resident Teaching Award 2013.”